decayed

adj 1: deteriorated by decay or rot; "decayed teeth"

2: damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; "rotten floor

boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation" [syn: {rotten},

{rotted}]

decay

[Nuclear physics] An automatic conversion which is applied to

most array-valued expressions in {C}; they "decay into"

pointer-valued expressions pointing to the array's first

element. This term is not used in the official standard for

the language.

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